AP®︎ U.S. Government & Politics: Topic 3.4 Flashcards

First Amendment protection of publishing and distributing information, ideas, criticism, and opinions from unconstitutional government interference

Government action that prevents expression from being published or distributed, rather than imposing consequences after publication

The doctrine that advance censorship is presumed unconstitutional and the government bears an exceptionally heavy burden to justify it

A court order requiring or prohibiting an action; an order blocking publication is a form of prior restraint

The Court struck down an injunction closing a newspaper deemed scandalous and defamatory, established the modern presumption against prior restraint, and applied press freedom to the states

The Court ruled 6–3 that the government had not met its heavy burden to stop newspapers from publishing the Pentagon Papers, despite claims of national-security harm